The weekend so far

Did a little Fashion parade for Carchi n Mobo this morning out of boredome and they thought i was high on crack or something.

So i have been sober for more than 5days now and turned down the opportunity to party like a rockstar last night with a couple of friends and a bunch of girls which was kinda strange considering i see myself as a yes man.

Yesterday was Friday the 13th, not that i'm superstitious but queer things have a penchant of rearing it's head on this particular day(s) of the year. This year was no exception as i lay on my bed, Dubz burst in to my room saying he just got a call from someone requesting us to come calm Four7 down as he's beating the living daylight out of one oh his workers. Myself & Dubz left the house in the pouring rain, hailed a cab and off to CP hoping he hadn't killed the boy or caused any fatal damage. We got in and the girls where like Thank God his friends are here, when we saw him, he was still beating the shit outta this kid. We retrieved the cane from him and asked him what the kid did.....the boy stole a customers' wallet and used the money to buy a phone, not only that, he stole from Four7's room and planned on running away. We calmed Four7 down and asked the boy where he kept the stolen purse which he couldn't produce but kept lying about where he kept it till we ended up in the restroom of CP. We pleaded for his sake considering he was a first time offender only to get to Four7's place later @ night to discover he's been stealing for quite a while and even broke into the house when no one was around which was what triggered the violent side of meas i joined Dubz n Four7 in beating the shit outta him till he confessed all his sins.

Anyways i'm heading to the pool now

ramblings!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Four days of abstinence from some of my vices and I am already feeling the side effects of not being my usual self. As the weekend approaches that is when my resolve will be truly tested. Starting with BYOB Thursdays @ play which I haven’t missed for a while now followed by Friday nights at Dub-C before hitting the clubs and finally Saturday nights of stupor with a few of my people. Will I be able to say NO when the opportunity arises? Thursday I might be able to if the flat mates are not interested, Friday is a tricky one as its Sumbo’s birthday and finally Saturday I should be able to fight it considering I’ll be heading to Church the following day (something I haven’t done in a while). I leave all in the hands of God. Even got a call from my dad today as he saw some of the comments on my profile….the old man no fit decode wetin dey go on. Just told him I was okay…..only if he knew about my nicotine kissing habits.

Moving to other things, life has been dealing me harsh cards lately but I have learnt to take the blows as they come. Haven’t had a job in a while now yet I have been surviving thanks to help from family & friends. Today I am trying to decide on where to start my new life as either
1. Project Coordinator.
2. Site Engineer.
3. Office IT Support.
The 1st was a job I applied for yesterday and I got today, all that’s left is negotiation of wages. The 2nd was a referral from a friend and the 3rd was a job I applied for a couple of months ago but told me to wait till they have their office set up.

Not to bore you with my work life let me talk more on what’s going on in my personal life. The girlfriend’s still not happy she hasn’t seen me in a while, had to walk 2miles to the bank because my ATM expired and was too broke to hail a cab…sign of the times and my good friend Mr. Dubz made fun of me. A friend moved in with me lately and all of a sudden she’s friends with everyone which is nice…was actually scared she wasn’t gonna fit it but she fit in perfectly. Took a liking to one of my fat flat mates and they decided to kick me outta my room which I stomached for the past few days but tonight I decided to be stubborn and yay I have my room to myself. Funny thing is I’m out in the living room blogging as I spent most of my day sleeping and can’t sleep now.
Got a meeting tomorrow with my potential CEO @ about 3pm later today, hope I impress the dude with my plenty oyinbo…………..make I go sleep jare

P.S
Google Wave is the shit…………….only 100,000 users in the world and guess who’s one of them?
P.S.S
I’m full of shit

Changes

Ones personalty can't be judged by his/her outward actions alone as the inner part is more or less the deciding factor in ones true nature. My character has been a subject of scrutiny for a while now by a bunch of people who don't really know me but can i blame them? NO! I blame myself for misleading a lot of people with some of my actions as well as some of the habits i have picked over the years. I have grown to love alcohol the strong ones to be specific, cancer sticks which i find very difficult to quit....actually puffing on one as i blog (hope it's the last one) and going out every weekend if i am in a perfect state of health and my weekend starts on BYOB Thursdays @ play.





Considering joining the AA if it helps matters



I have decided to kick against some of these habits maybe stop them totally or worst case scenario put a little bit of moderation if i find it hard to stop. My decision to try and effect these changes arose from a little soul searching, girlfriend complaining and maybe last nights binging and the subsequent hangover that got me thinking i need to cool it down or just stop it entirely. As i have come to realize that most people except close friends judge me by my outward ways i have decided to change some of my ways in order to suit the general public as well as living healthy.

I have decided to quit smoking (not the 1st time) but i need the encouragement of people around me, i will limit my weekend grooves and only go out when all my flatmates or friends are involved, will try to stop flirting (not as if i am a pro), try not to get drunk whenever i am out drinking and all those other things that just seem wrong needs eradication. Will try my best to be closer to God, honest to myself and people around me, get my acts right and he good generally.





And if this doesn't work out before the year ends, i will make it a New Year's resolution so help me God. If/When you see me backsliding please stop me and i am open to constructive criticism.

Google Wave

I finally got my google wave invite after weeks of requesting it from google, lucky me got the invite from a friend who applied way back in June. The snag is i only have 2 contacts on it at the moment so there's little i can do to figure out the whole functionality of google wave as we're never online at the same time.



A breakdown of what google wave is all about;

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

Google Wave is designed as the next generation of Internet communication. It is written in Java using OpenJDK and its web interface uses the Google Web Toolkit. Google Wave works like previous messaging systems like email and Usenet, but instead of sending a message along with its entire thread of previous messages, or requiring all responses to be stored in each user's inbox for context, message documents (referred to as waves) that contain complete threads of multimedia messages (blips) are perpetually stored on a central server. Waves are shared with collaborators who can be added to or removed from the wave at any point during a wave's existence.

Waves, described by Google as "equal parts conversation and document", are hosted XML documents that allow seamless and low latency concurrent modifications. Any participant of a wave can reply anywhere within the message, edit any part of the wave, and add participants at any point in the process. Each edit/reply is a blip and users can reply to individual blips within waves. Recipients are notified of changes/replies in all waves in which they are active and, upon opening a wave, may review those changes in chronological order. In addition, waves are live. All replies/edits are visible in real-time, letter by letter, as they are typed by the other collaborators. Multiple participants may edit a single wave simultaneously in Google Wave. Thus, waves can function not only as e-mails and threaded conversations but also as an instant messaging service when many participants are online at the same time. A wave may repeatedly shift roles between e-mail and instant messaging depending on the number of users editing it concurrently.

The ability to show messages as they are typed can be disabled, similar to conventional instant messaging. The ability to modify a wave at any location lets users create collaborative documents, edited in a manner akin to wikis. Waves can easily link to other waves. It is in many respects a more advanced forum. The history of each wave is stored within it. Collaborators may use a playback feature in Google Wave to observe the order in which a wave was edited, blips that were added, and who was responsible for what in the wave. The history may also be searched by a user to view and/or modify specific changes, such as specific kinds of changes or messages from a single user.

As of October, 2009, Google Wave is still in active development and is expected to remain in development until later in 2009. It was launched to about 100,000 users on September 30, 2009. Google Wave access can be requested. Developers have been given access to Wave proper, and all wave users invited by Google can nominate up to 20 others. sorry folks i can't send invites as i wasn't invited directly by google.

The best part is it's open source so developers can edit several extensions of it.

My take on the whole google wave trend by the time it's extended to the general public is it's gonna kick ass and you just might kick your facebook pages good bye as you can do virtually everything you do on facebook and more.

unemployment's a bitch!!!

At first it was fun staying at home watching movies and browsing the internet and puffing away cancer sticks all day. Now it's just plain annoying and tiring. Been in the labor market now for about 2 months and before you people start comparing me with people who've been out of a job for years well i ain't them and i know my worth.

What have i been doing all this while? Been sending my Resume to several companies, talking to family and friends to recommend me to several firms but to no avail. Luck kinda smiled on me recently (so i thought) when a flatmate of mine hooked me up with an interview with some engineering firm which i obliged all in the name of getting out of the house. Getting to the office armed with my Resume and totally psyched i was the man for the job, i was filled out some forms and was scheduled to meet with the CEO in a few minutes. After waiting for about 5mins i was asked to come in, presented my Resume and he was like you're an Engineer!!!! like duh....he started ranting about them not needing an engineer but someone who was good with computers and the Microsoft Office packages as well as developing proposals and out of desperation i said yes thinking it was a position of a business developer only to find out i was applying for the post of a SECRETARY...i mean a whole SKILLS = SECRETARY....kindly told them i wasn't doing again as they wanted me to start immediately. On the bright side i was told to come for another interview next week for the position of a site engineer...hope that goes well.